It is only during totality that the eclipse reveals a simple if profound fact: The sun lives among the stars.
If that means gassing up the car and driving hours and hours to the middle of nowhere to find a patch of clear sky along theso be it. A partial solar eclipse, even one with the sun 99 percent obscured, won’t incite the same intensity of awe, wonder, shock or — for some — the irrepressible
“Seeing a partial eclipse bears the same relation to seeing a total eclipse as kissing a man does to marrying him, or as flying in an airplane does to falling out of an airplane,” Dillard wrote. It is only during totality that the eclipse reveals a simple if profound truth: The sun lives among the stars, and the planets live with the sun. The five planets that may be visible on April 8 — counting the planet at your feet — will be lined up, along with the sun and moon, on the ecliptic of the solar system.
Right up to the 20th century, some scientists estimated that the sun and Earth might be only a few tens of millions of years old. But, critics were quick to point out, required a very old Earth in which life could slowly evolve into a great diversity of forms.William Thomson, known as Lord Kelvin, argued for a much younger sun, based on calculations that assumed the sun produced energy through gravitational interactions as matter fell toward the core.
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